GuardIEn contains facilities
to assist in rapid and effective impact analysis. It directly access the contents
of the models to provide answers to questions like:

When was an object last
changed in each of the models that contain it?

When was it last generated?

When was it last migrated?

What objects use the
object, or what objects does it use?

What objects have been
changed but not regenerated?

Is the current model
timestamp the same as the last time it was placed into production?

What subsets is the object
checked out to?

What change requests
have scoped the object?

All of these questions and
more can be answered very quickly by using GuardIEn's integrated impact analysis
features. Because the data is directly extracted out of the encyclopaedia, it
is up to date, and unlike workstations reports that operate on a subset of the
data, it is complete because it is extracted from the complete model.

GuardIEn's reports
go beyond single model reporting - they can span multiple models, providing
the sort of powerful cross model reports that are required to manage a multiple
model development environment.